Dispute over animal sacrifice on Bakrid kills 5 in Pakistan

Two groups of people in Pakistan today clashed and opened fire over the sacrifice of animals on Bakrid, killing five persons and injuring six others, police said.

A long-standing dispute between them escalated during the sacrifice of animals on the occasion of Eid al-Adha in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan city, Geo News reported.

Both the groups lost two persons each, while a passerby was also killed in the exchange of fire, police said.

The injured were shifted to nearby hospitals in Mardan and Peshawar.

Eid al-Adha, also known as Bakrid or Id-ul-Zuha, marks prophet Abraham's sacrifice of a lamb after God spared his son, Prophet Ismail.

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